Jonah Sachs

Jonah Sachs speaks to Fortune 500 companies, cutting-edge entrepreneurs, international organizations and small businesses around the world, guiding them on how they can break patterns and make new connections to create powerful, meaningful, and radical change. He is an award-winning, internationally recognized author, social change pioneer, and viral marketing trailblazer whose work helped spur the 21st century values revolution. His pioneering new approaches to digital media were critical in bringing the ideals of social change—such as equity, empowerment, responsibility, transparency, and advocacy—to the forefront of business and popular culture. Sachs is a sought-after business keynote speaker for his expertise in storytelling and creativity. A master storyteller, he creates a unique and intimate connection with his audiences, channeling the wisdom of thinkers from across disciplines and drawing on cutting edge research and spellbinding anecdotes to tell stories of profound change. Sachs has spoken and presented at events including TEDx, Salesforce’s Dreamforce, South By Southwest, and Sundance Film Festival, as well as at companies including Microsoft, Pepsi, GoDaddy, and LinkedIn. His talks have helped people lasso their creativity, tap into the art of storytelling, and change mindset to create breakthrough ideas.

Sachs is the author of the best-selling Winning the Story Wars and Unsafe Thinking: How to be Nimble and Bold When You Need It Most (April, 2018). For his work, Sachs was named by Fast Company as one of 50 people offering hope for the planet. He was three times awarded “Best Ofs” at the South by Southwest digital festival, has earned multiple Webby Awards and pens a column for Fast Company. Sachs’s work and opinions have been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, The Daily Show, FOX News, BBC, Sundance Film Festival, and NPR.

In his Unsafe Thinking talks Sachs explains to audiences the science and practice of breakthrough creativity and mindset change for individuals and companies facing a world of rapid change. He shows how we can change ourselves in order to better change our businesses and the world. In his Winning the Story Wars talks Sachs reveals how the art of storytelling can be learned and leveraged to accelerate the growth of a business or movement in today’s noisy media landscape. He also explains how to harness classic patterns of stories and myths for today’s business world.

Jonah Sachs exploded into the business world and rose to prominence in the early 2000s by creating some of the world’s first, and still most heralded, viral digital marketing videos. As founder and CEO of Free Range Studios, Sachs created watershed viral campaigns, like Amnesty International’s awareness-raising video on blood diamonds which was seen by 20 million people and delivered by to every member of congress, helping drive the passage of the Clean Diamond Act.

Sachs later conceived of and created “The Story of Stuff,” which, viewed by over 60 million people, marked a turning point in the fight to educate people about the environmental and social impact of consumer goods. He went onto to create groundbreaking campaigns for Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaigns and the ACLU, as well as consumer brands including Microsoft, Pepsi, and L’Oreal.

Jonah Sachs lives with his family in Oakland, California.